Two days in Glasgow

Posted on November 5, 2025 by Bryan Keith

I don’t understand air fares. It’s over 3300km from Antalya to Glasgow, and we bought tickets on Coredon for US$92/person. Crazy. Our goal was to get to London, but when we saw that deal, we decided to visit Scotland for the first time.

In the immigration line at the Glasgow airport we ran into friends of friends, Cansu and Yiğit, another childless couple living in Antalya and traveling around. 🙂

Yiğit and Cansu -- friends of friends who also in Antalya by bryandkeith on flickr

I checked the internet and saw that if we hurried we’d make it to the Glasgow Cathedral before they closed that afternoon.

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Homonada Yolu walking: Kızılca to Seydişehir

Posted on October 26, 2025 by Bryan Keith

Another walking tour in Konya where they take our bags from one camp to another and all we have to do is walk. Unlike the first two, this tour was organized by Seydişehir Belediyesi. Turns out the organizers at Konya Büyükşehir Belediyesi and Seydişehir Belediyesi have some sort of unpleasant rivalry/competition going on. I tried to avoid understanding the politics of municipality-sponsored walking tours.

I took a public bus to Seydişehir and got dropped off at a restaurant on the main highway just 2.5km from Kuğulu Park where some of us camped the first night. I set up my tent about 5pm (before the rain) and was surprised there were only about four tents already there. Most people arrived the following morning since they had to work on Wednesday.

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Mnara Antik Kenti

Posted on October 16, 2025 by Bryan Keith

This one has been on my list for a long time. The setting of the tiny theater on a high ridge in the mountains above Antalya is impressive. It’s where all the photos that you see on the internet are taken. Philipp‘s been up here at least a couple times, and it would have been more fun to come with him than with a big group, but Ahmet called and told me about this plan with TODOSK. On the dolmuş ride to the trailhead, I sat next to 83-year-old Durmuş Ali Abi who I hadn’t seen in years. Great to see that he’s still a strong hiker. I also met some fun new folks who hopefully I’ll see again.

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Keykubad Yolu walking: Güneycik to Çıplaklı

Posted on October 6, 2025 by Bryan Keith

After last spring’s walk on the Zengibar Yolu, Ferda and I knew what we were getting into this time. This five-day tour was also organized by the Konya Büyükşehir Belediyesi though the route was entirely in Antalya İli (province). We started in Güneycik (Gündoğmuş); most of the route was in Alanya İlçe (district).

The best thing was that we went with a fun group of friends. This was the first time we’ve seen Emek and Görkem since Şavşat four years ago.

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Likya Yolu apparently didn’t scare away Gülizar and Ali. They joined us again from İzmir.

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Bicycle touring Malaysia: from Malacca south to Singapore

Posted on September 26, 2025 by Bryan Keith

The first week I bicycled in Sulawesi I complained about closed restaurants and too much traffic because of the busy end of Ramadan holiday. Unfortunately I have to do the same thing for Malaysia. We did find some nice roads, and we did find some horrible roads (narrow with too much traffic), and it wasn’t at all predictable from looking at the map which would be which. For example what looked like a main road heading into Benut had almost no traffic, but what I expected to be quiet rural roads before that were crowded with way too many cars.

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